Stroke survivors may lose month of healthy life for 15-minute delay in treatment

“In stroke treatment, every minute saved gives patients days of healthy life,” Meretoja said. “Patients should never wait a single minute for stroke signs, such as face droop, arm weakness or speech disturbance, to go away. They should call for help immediately. Additionally, most emergency medical services and hospitals have the ability to reduce response and treatment delays significantly, and we have described how to do this.”  Meretoja's article was published in Stroke yesterday.  The American Heart Association has this Rapid Access Journal Report here.

Environmental and State-Level Regulatory Factors Affect the Incidence of Autism and Intellectual Disability

Researchers from the University of Chicago have found that rates of autism and intellectually disability in the US correlate with incidence of genital malformation in newborn males at county level - an indicator of fetus exposure to harmful environmental factors, such as pesticides. PLOS Article

The Future of Medicine

3-D printing of organs sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie.  This Popular Science article discusses the potential of this technology, "In two decades, 3-D printing has grown from a niche manufacturing process to a $2.7-billion industry, responsible for the fabrication of all sorts of things: toys, wristwatches, airplane parts, food. Now scientists are working to apply similar 3-D–printing technology to the field of medicine, accelerating an equally dramatic change. But it's much different, and much easier, to print with plastic, metal, or chocolate than to print with living cells."  They also have this synopsis, "Five Body Parts Scientists Can 3-D Print."  And this article is available  "Bioprinting Toward Organ Fabrication: Challenges and Future Trends" from IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.  You will need to sign into Murray State to read this one.

Johnson & Johnson to share Drug Research Data with Yale

Wall Street Journal Article

J&J signed an agreement with Yale University under which it will share detailed clinical trial data from hundreds of drugs and other products with outside academic researchers.

Affordable Care Act

NNLM's LibGuide on the Affordable Care Act.

This is directed at Librarians, but it's full of good information for anyone interested in learning more about or helping others with the Affordable Care Act.

The Kaiser Foundation has an easy to understand video about the Affordable Health Care Act at
http://kff.org/health-reform/video/youtoons-obamacare-video/

Hospital is no place for the elderly

An article from the Atlantic on why keeping the chronically ill and elderly at home makes sense.